Job 14

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¹“Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble. ✦ ²He comes forth like a flower and fades away; He flees like a shadow and does not continue. ✦ ³And do You open Your eyes on such a one, And bring me to judgment with Yourself? ✦ ⁴Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one! ✦ ⁵Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass. ✦ ⁶Look away from him that he may rest, Till like a hired man he finishes his day. ✦ ⁷“For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tender shoots will not cease. ✦ ⁸Though its root may grow old in the earth, And its stump may die in the ground, ✦ ⁹Yet at the scent of water it will bud And bring forth branches like a plant. ✦ ¹⁰But man dies and is laid away; Indeed he breathes his last And where is he? ✦ ¹¹As water disappears from the sea, And a river becomes parched and dries up, ✦ ¹²So man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens are no more, They will not awake Nor be roused from their sleep. ✦ ¹³“Oh, that You would hide me in the grave, That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, That You would appoint me a set time, and remember me! ✦ ¹⁴If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, Till my change comes. ✦ ¹⁵You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall desire the work of Your hands. ✦ ¹⁶For now You number my steps, But do not watch over my sin. ✦ ¹⁷My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And You cover my iniquity. ✦ ¹⁸“But as a mountain falls and crumbles away, And as a rock is moved from its place; ✦ ¹⁹As water wears away stones, And as torrents wash away the soil of the earth; So You destroy the hope of man. ✦ ²⁰You prevail forever against him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away. ✦ ²¹His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; They are brought low, and he does not perceive it. ✦ ²²But his flesh will be in pain over it, And his soul will mourn over it.” ✦

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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

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